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End of 2013

Posted on January 2, 2014 by achristinewriter

Honestly, on a real-life, personal level, not a lot happened with me in 2013. At the beginning of last year, I had all these things that I’d accomplished and things that I’d tried, but 2013 was merely an extension of … Continue reading →

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Week 4: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition) COMPLETE

Posted on November 25, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 76,316 words Words written since Week 3: 19,050 words So, WH is officially finished! At least as far as the first draft goes. And the award for longest, sloppiest denouement goes to… Seriously, my ending to the nightmare … Continue reading →

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Week 3: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 57,266 words Words written since Week 2: 26,251 words That “words written since” is actually larger, because I deleted the first 4-some-thousand words that I had whited out for NaNo word count. It’s hard to believe that I’ve … Continue reading →

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Week 2: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)

Posted on November 11, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 31,015 words Words written since Week 1: 15,952 words That “words written since” number should go up by next week, since Week 1 was actually four days instead of a whole week. Also, I have an Overnight of … Continue reading →

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Week 1: Femme Fighting (NaNo2013 Edition)

Posted on November 4, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 15,063 words And technically, that Week 1 started after midnight on Nov. 1 with our local NaNo group’s Kick-Off Party at IHOP. Don’t get too excited about how many words that is. All 4k words I wrote at … Continue reading →

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This and That

Posted on July 22, 2013 by achristinewriter

The second pass of edits for the nightmare novel took longer than expected, but that’s because I did a third pass as well. The second pass was for the corrections that a psychologist consultant gave me on some scenes (I … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Remix 2: Week 13 – FINISHED

Posted on July 8, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 183,984 words Words written since Week 12: 13,722 words I’m officially finished with FTR2. I celebrated with pizza, and tomorrow I’m having a frappuccino, although I really need to work on my coffee habit now that the opus … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Remix 2: Week 12

Posted on July 1, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 170,262/175,000 words Words written since Week 11: 19,838 words As you can see, my school break gave me a great opportunity to make a big jump ahead, and not only did I write my 20k words this week, … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Remix 2: Week 11

Posted on June 24, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 150,424/175,000 words Words written since Week 10: 13,359 words Well, look at that. I crossed 150k and I’m still going. Milestone, but not quite as exciting as The End. I saved my extra two thousand words written two … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Remix 2: Week 10

Posted on June 17, 2013 by achristinewriter

Word count: 137,065/150,000 words Words written since Week 9: 14,952 words I just checked where I was last year on Week 10 of writing FTR1. At that point, I was at 90k words. Amazing what jacking your weekly quota up … Continue reading →

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